Minden Press-Herald
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published in Minden
Minden, Louisiana
Minden is a city in the American state of Louisiana. It serves as the parish seat of Webster Parish and is located twenty-eight miles east of Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish. The population, which has been stable since 1960, was 13,027 at the 2000 census...
, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, by Specht Newspapers, Inc. It serves the Minden and south Webster Parish circulation area with mostly local news
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.
The original Minden Herald
The earliest use of the name Minden Herald dates to 1895, when publisher/printerPrinter (publisher)
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/editor
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William Jasper Blackburn, an Arkansas
Arkansas
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native, arrived in Minden, then a part of Claiborne Parish. He was a Democrat
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, a supporter of the Union
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, and opposed slavery
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. He was mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
of Minden too for a single one-year term from May 1855 – May 1856. Blackburn’s Minden Herald was published for about six years. It was not the first newspaper in Minden. That distinction went to the former Minden Iris, which emerged in the founding of neighboring Bienville Parish in 1848.
The Minden political climate shifted to favor the Know Nothing Party, which repudiated "non-native" ideas, and Blackburn moved to Homer
Homer, Louisiana
Homer is present day parish seat of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, United States. The town was named after the Greek poet Homer and was laid out around the Courthouse Square in 1850 by Frank Vaughn. The present day brick courthouse, built in the Greek Revival style of architecture, is one of only...
to establish his Homer Iliad. During the American Civil War
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, Blackburn published in opposition to the Confederate States of America
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. Tried in Confederate District Court in Shreveport
Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. It is the principal city of the fourth largest metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana and is the 109th-largest city in the United States....
, Blackburn survived conviction by a single vote on charges of having produced counterfeit
Counterfeit
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Confederate currency
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. Had the verdict been unanimous, he would have been hanged. Blackburn remained in Homer during Reconstruction and served in the United States House of Representatives
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as a Republican
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from 1868-1869. Thereafter, he was a member of the Louisiana State Senate
Louisiana State Legislature
The Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana Senate with 39 senators...
until he was defeated in 1878 by the emerging Redeemer
Redeemer
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Democratic government. Blackburn relocated to Little Rock
Little Rock, Arkansas
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, where he published the Arkansas Republican.
Harper Brothers and Lowe
The name Minden Herald was revived briefly during Reconstruction, but few, if any, issues of the newspaper are extant. A quotation from the Shreveport Times, which began publication in 1871, refers in 1872 to the existence of the Minden Herald. A later Minden Herald appeared in 1924 under the direction of printer Clifton Harper (1902–1982), explained John Agan, Minden’s official city historianHistorian
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. Harper attended Minden High School
Minden High School (Minden, Louisiana)
Minden High School is the public secondary educational institution in Minden, a small city of 13,000 and the seat of Webster Parish located twenty-eight miles east of Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana...
and worked at another publication called the Webster Signal, published by Thomas Wafer Fuller
Thomas Wafer Fuller
Thomas Wafer Fuller was an educator and newspaperman from Minden, Louisiana,who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana State Senate from 1896 to 1900....
, a member of the Louisiana State Senate
Louisiana State Legislature
The Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana Senate with 39 senators...
from 1896 to 1900 and a Webster Parish school superintendent from 1908 to 1920. After Fuller's death in 1920, his widow, the former Alma Bright, continued publishing for several years thereafter The Signal. Clifton Harper studied printing under the direction of his brother, William Harper. He worked for a competitor of the Webster Signal, the new Minden Tribune, edited for a time by J. Frank Colbert
J. Frank Colbert
Jefferson Franklin Colbert, known as J. Frank Colbert , was a Democratic politician who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1920–1925 and from 1944-1946 as the mayor of the small city of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana.-Background:Colbert was born in...
, a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
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The Louisiana State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is bicameral body, comprising the lower house, the Louisiana House of Representatives with 105 representatives, and the upper house, the Louisiana Senate with 39 senators...
from 1920–1925 and the mayor
Mayor
In many countries, a Mayor is the highest ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city....
of Minden from 1944-1946.
Clifton Harper left Minden in 1924 to attend Baylor University
Baylor University
Baylor University is a private, Christian university located in Waco, Texas. Founded in 1845, Baylor is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.-History:...
in Waco
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, Texas
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. He and his wife, the former Myrtle Buckley (1904–1990), both completed their degrees in business administration and journalism
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and returned to Minden, where Clifton’s brothers, William Harper (1894–1971) and Clinton Harper (1904–1978), along with Prentiss Lowe, began their Webster Sentinel in October 1928. Clifton Harper joined the paper as editor.
On November 14, 1929, the name Minden Herald was restored; therefore, the Harper brothers and Prentiss Lowe were the fathers of the "Herald" half of the Minden Press-Herald. At the time, the Webster Sentinel explained that the resumption of the name Minden Herald was intended to clear up confusion over another journal, the Webster Signal-Tribune, which had begun in 1926, when the Webster Signal merged with the Minden Tribune.
The Spivas’ Webster Printing Company
Under Harper’s leadership, the weekly Minden Herald was published on Friday. His editorials called for economic growth and modernization. Harper Brothers and Lowe acquired ownership of the other local paper, the Signal-Tribune, published on Tuesday. In February 1932, the Minden Herald purchased the Webster News and changed its name to the Minden Herald and Webster News published as a single newspaper. This arrangement continued until April 1937, when the Harper Brothers left the local newspaper market, and the papers were sold to the Webster Printing Company, owned by Hubert Spiva and Lilla Stewart Spiva. Hubert Spiva was a veteran newspaperman and his wife, Lilla, daughter of Daniel W. Stewart of Minden, had experience in journalism. The new company ceased publication of the Signal-Tribune and instead issued the Webster News as a separate paper on Tuesday.Through the 1940s, Webster Printing and the Spivas had sole control of the Minden newspaper market. After Hubert Spiva's death, his widow, Lilla, continued to run the corporation. In 1949, she was the only woman representative from Louisiana at the annual meeting of the National Editorial Association in Chicago, Illinois
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.
The Spivas had a son, Tam Spiva
Tam Spiva
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, a script writer for such television
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programs as The Brady Bunch
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on ABC
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.
In 1949, Clifton Harper returned to the local newspaper scene with his new Minden Press. He engaged in an aggressive marketing campaign and moved his publication to Thursday to have a day’s advantage on the Minden Herald. For a time, Minden was again served by three local papers: the Minden News on Monday, the Minden Press on Thursday, and the Minden Herald on Friday.
Emergence of the Press-Herald
In January 1953, the Webster News was renamed the Webster Review and then, in October 1954, the Webster Review and the Minden Herald were consolidated into a single publication issued on Thursday in competition with the Minden Press on Monday. This change came at the same time that Major (not a military title) dePingre (1928–2007), a LeesvilleLeesville, Louisiana
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native and a Louisiana State University
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graduate, was hired as editor of the latest Minden Herald. In December 1955, Webster Newspapers Corporation was formed under the direction of Tom Colten
Tom Colten
Arthur Thomas Colten, known as Tom Colten , was a Louisiana politician from the 1960s to the 1990s who rose from a small-town mayoralty position to head his state's Department of Transportation and Development under three governors from both parties...
(1922–2004), a Detroit
Detroit, Michigan
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native, who arrived in Minden from Bogalusa
Bogalusa, Louisiana
Bogalusa is a city in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 13,365 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the Bogalusa Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Washington Parish and is also part of the larger New Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa...
, where he had been business manager of the Bogalusa Daily News. Webster Newspapers purchased the Minden Press from Harper and the Minden Herald from Mrs. Spiva and combined the newspapers under the long-anticipated Minden Press-Herald name. DePingre was named editor of both the Minden Press (Monday) and the Minden Herald (Thursday). Colten served as publisher of both papers beginning with the January 1956 issues.
Specht Newspapers, Inc.
In 1965, Colten sold the newspapers to Richard Hill. Colten became the executive director of the Minden Chamber of CommerceChamber of commerce
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and was elected the next year as mayor, having served two consecutive four-year terms. While Colten had hoped to establish a daily newspaper, that change did not occur until July 18, 1966, when the current Minden Press-Herald made its debut. The Press-Herald was sold to Specht Newspapers, Inc., which publishes the newspaper at 203 Gleason Street in Minden, the site of a former grocery store, along with the Bossier Press-Tribune in Bossier City. Chipley Newspapers of Pensacola
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, Florida
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, is a subsidiary of Spect Newspapers.
Specht Newspapers was headed by David Arthur Specht, Sr. (October 29, 1945–April 14, 2011), a native of Philadelphia
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, Pennsylvania
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. Specht, Sr., a son of the late Arthur and Mary Specht, moved to Minden in 1968 and became the publisher and eventually owner of the Press-Herald. Specht thereafter spent several years publishing newspapers in Alabama
Alabama
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, Kentucky
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, and Florida, before he founded Specht Newspapers, Inc., in 1983.
Specht also owned Webster Printing Company in Minden. He died at the age of sixty-five after a lengthy illness. Specht was survived by his wife, the former Cheryl Milford of Minden; a son, newspaper officer David Specht, Jr., of Minden, and his wife, Tina Specht; two grandsons, Zachary and Joshua Specht; sister, Melanie Montgomery of Tallahassee
Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, and is the 128th largest city in the United States. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2010, the population recorded by...
, Florida, and brother, William Specht of Shreveport.
Divisions of the Press-Herald
The Minden Press-Herald is divided into these sections:Local News
Community News
Opinion
Sports
Obituaries
Good News (includes religion)
Classified
The Press Herald shares the website
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nwlanews.com with its sister publication, the Bossier Press-Tribune.
Current and former Press-Herald staffers
- John Agan writes "Echoes of the Past", a periodic column for the Press-Herald on local historyHistoryHistory is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, much of it from the 19th century. He is a professorProfessorA professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
at Bossier Parish Community CollegeBossier Parish Community CollegeBossier Parish Community College is a two-year institution of higher education established in 1967 by the Louisiana State Legislature, initially as a pilot program to test the feasibility of commuter two-year colleges...
in Bossier City and the official Webster Parish historian. - Juanita Agan (1923–2008) wrote a periodic column "Cameos", which focuses on "older times" of "Americana".
- Josh Beavers is the publisher and editor of the Press-Herald. A native of Claiborne Parish, he was born to Dwight Alan Beavers (1948–2008; drowningDrowningDrowning is death from asphyxia due to suffocation caused by water entering the lungs and preventing the absorption of oxygen leading to cerebral hypoxia....
victim) and the former Sheila McKenzie.
- Barbara ColleyBarbara ColleyBarbara Ann Logan Colley is a romance and mystery novelist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her recent work is centered on the fictitious "Charlotte LaRue", the subject of a series of mysteries. She has written more than a dozen novels which have been published in some seventeen languages....
, romance and mystery novelNovelA novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
ist based in the New Orleans metro area, once edited the advertisingAdvertisingAdvertising is a form of communication used to persuade an audience to take some action with respect to products, ideas, or services. Most commonly, the desired result is to drive consumer behavior with respect to a commercial offering, although political and ideological advertising is also common...
section of the Press-Herald. - Gene Clark (born 1935), originally from Franklin ParishFranklin Parish, Louisiana-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 21,263 people, 7,754 households, and 5,706 families residing in the parish. The population density was 34 people per square mile . There were 8,623 housing units at an average density of 14 per square mile...
, became managing editor in February 1974, having previously been at the Denham Springs News in Denham SpringsDenham Springs, LouisianaDenham Springs is a city in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States, and part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area. Downtown Denham Springs has transformed itself from hardware stores, drug stores, doctor's offices, and a single movie theater to a collection of various and varied...
in Livingston ParishLivingston Parish, LouisianaLivingston Parish Is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Its parish seat is Livingston. As of 2010, its population was 128,026....
. He had earlier worked at the Press-Herald sports desk. - Wayne E. Dring (born June 22, 1940), former advertising director and managing editor of the Press-Herald during the early 1970s; formerly edited the weekly Bienville Democrat in ArcadiaArcadia, LouisianaArcadia is a town in and the parish seat of Bienville Parish in north Louisiana, United States. The population was 3,041 at the 2000 census....
, the seat of Bienville Parish. - David Kidd (born 1951), sports editor in 1973, was a champion track runner at Westlake High SchoolWestlake High SchoolWestlake High School may refer to:*Westlake High School , Westlake Village, California*Westlake High School , Atlanta, Georgia*Westlake High School - Westlake, Louisiana*Westlake High School , Waldorf, Maryland...
in WestlakeWestlake, LouisianaWestlake is a city in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States and is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is considered a suburb of Lake Charles. The population was 4,668 at the 2000 census...
in Calcasieu ParishCalcasieu Parish, LouisianaCalcasieu Parish[p] is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Lake Charles. As of 2010, the parish population was 192,768...
and at Louisiana Tech UniversityLouisiana Tech UniversityLouisiana Tech University, often referred to as Louisiana Tech, LA Tech, or Tech, is a coeducational public research university located in Ruston, Louisiana. Louisiana Tech is designated as a Tier 1 school in the national universities category by the 2012 U.S. News & World Report college rankings... - Charles E. MapleCharles E. MapleCharles Edward Maple, known as Charlie Maple , was a journalist, chamber of commerce official, and state parks executive during the second half of the 20th century in the four-state region of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.-Early years, education, military:Maple was born in Oklahoma City...
(1932-2006), news editor of weekly Minden Press and Minden Herald, 1960-1966, later chamber of commerceChamber of commerceA chamber of commerce is a form of business network, e.g., a local organization of businesses whose goal is to further the interests of businesses. Business owners in towns and cities form these local societies to advocate on behalf of the business community...
executive director - Marilyn Miller, a former Press-Herald executive director, is an industry public relationsPublic relationsPublic relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....
representative and the author of Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light: A True Crime Story based on a crime in Webster Parish which occurred on ChristmasChristmasChristmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
1916. - Nody Parker (1943–2007) was sports editor of the Press-Herald in the early 1970s and an area baseballBaseballBaseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
coachCoach (sport)In sports, a coach is an individual involved in the direction, instruction and training of the operations of a sports team or of individual sportspeople.-Staff:...
. He had a second career in educationEducationEducation in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
in TexasTexasTexas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
. - Stanley R. TinerStanley R. TinerStanley Ray Tiner has since May 2000 been the executive editor and vice president of The Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi. He previously served briefly as the executive editor of The Daily Oklahoman in Oklahoma City and as editor of the Press-Register in Mobile, Alabama...
, the executive editor of the The Sun HeraldThe Sun HeraldThe Sun Herald is a U.S. newspaper based in Biloxi, Mississippi, that serves readers along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It is owned by The McClatchy Company, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the United States....
in Biloxi-GulfportGulfport-Biloxi metropolitan areaThe Gulfport-Biloxi Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan area in the Mississippi Gulf Coast region that covers three counties - Hancock, Harrison, and Stone. As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 246,190. The area was significantly impacted by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. A...
, MississippiMississippiMississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...
. Tiner, a Shreveport native and graduate of the journalism department at Louisiana Tech University, was the managing editor of the Press-Herald from September 1969 to March 1970.